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The Green Mountain Boys• j'Iieti• udi 1rJOn our outside will be found an elo-!: quent extract from a discourse by Rev.Win. II. Channing of Washington rela- j tivc to the grand review of our armies at j i Washington. After the review of the Sixth Corps, a week or two later, Mr., | Channing wrote a letter to his sister at1 Brattleboro, which has found its way into: the P/ienis. and a part of which we copy.It is a merited tribute to the Vermont sol- ediers: 1This morning has witnessed the re- (view of the ‘ Sixth Corps,’ in which, as Tyou may remember, are eight Vermont 1 regiments—the 2d, lid, 4th. 5th, »ith, 8th, 1 10th and lltli. Seven of these are in f one brigade, the 2d brigade, 2d divirion, ,11 under Gen. L. A. Grant. To mark the c Green Mountain State, the soldiers had I all placed a sprig of green—cedar or ar- ^ bor vita*—in their caps: and this gave a 11• | festal air to the whole brigade. Men and iofficers looked grandly: tall, sturdy, }^ j cJ bronzed, muscular, they strode bv with ‘swinging step, fresh and bright, as if just 1 setting out on a campaign, instead of re-turning homewards after four vears of as :I terrible service as any brigade in any ar- 1% «r ” J Imy of the whole republic lias passfd 1 through. Their torn battle-flags and1 wasted ranks tohl the story of their brave}. heroism, There w:is the regiment that so | gloriously crossed the mill nice beforeYorktown, twice, and then under a galling tire crossed again to bring off their 5 wounded. 1 here were the regiments who 'i I Cheld their ground so tenaciously, again 1* • - • eand again, in the fatal swamps of the •Ghickahouiinv. There were the rc«ri- '• **ments that stormed the heights of Freder- 1 ick'burg, and the next day presented so * -j steady a front on Salem heights, against /the surging rebels, until our broken and ‘,j baflled left wing crossed the Kappahan- 1 noek. There wen* tin* regiments who so11 gloriously helped to save our right wing from utter ruin, on the first dav ot the 1 Wilderness. llere were the men wlioi1 last year saved Washington, and then 1 1 rolled back Dwells corps of invaders up 1 the Shenandoah. Finally, those wen* the ! men who broke the lines at Petersburg,Kind held Hurksville Junction, and march-I*i1ted in the verv van ol the army of the Fo-• wtomae towards Danville. Where there was tieree lighting, long marching, exposure, fatigue, risk to be eiidun-d, then* always was the gallant Sixth Corps. Thevwere hravc Sedgwick’s pets. The foremost among the host of heroes lia alwavsc .moved the \ crinont brigade. Well mav their state, their counties, towns and homes he proud ot them. Glorious an* 1 they who live to ret uni. Glorious vet i | more are the martyrs who poured out J their life's blood and spent their youthful ‘strength for freedom. God bless the t (ircen M ountain 1h»vs.m
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Saint Johnsbury Caledonian
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, US
Fri, Jun 23, 1865
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